Location Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Regions Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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Garrett Bucks is the current Executive Director of Teach for America – Milwaukee. As the founding Executive Director in Milwaukee from 2009-2011, Bucks oversaw a growth in corps size, tripled the organization’s revenue base, and grew the number of school partners from 1 to 20. Most recently, Garrett served as the Chief Culture Coach for the
national offices of Teach For America, supporting the work and goals of the organization’s 50,000 corps members, alumni, and staff members. Prior to being Chief Culture Coach, Garrett held the position of Chief Marketing Officer. Garrett brings longstanding passion and deep knowledge of education to this role. As a 2003 New Mexico corps member, Garrett led his fifth grade students to grow three grade levels in math and two in reading.
Garrett then completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Stockholm and worked as a Teacher at the Heartland Alliance in Chicago.
More importantly, Garrett is a dad, a husband and a proud adopted Milwaukeean and Riverwester whose biggest passion in life is helping the town he fell in love with become known not for segregation and inequity but justice, inclusiveness and an educational system where every one of our city’s kids is allowed to be brilliant.
Garrett has a Bachelor of Arts degree degree from Earlham College.
